About
Julia Kloiber is the Co-Founder of the fenminist organization Superrr Lab – a research and advocacy organization. She develops strategies and concepts for the digital world, focusing on societal benefits and equity.
Julia has put her expertise in technology, design and media studies to use for the Mozilla Foundation, the Open Knowledge Foundation and The Engine Room. She has been running multiple projects that foster the reuse of open data and promote transparency – such as Germany’s first Civic Tech Incubator ‘Stadt Land Code’. She enjoys speaking at international conferences, such as TED, the Personal Democracy Forum or the World Design Conference. As digital strategy advisor, she works with government institutions and non-profits.
In 2014 she co-founded Code for Germany and grew it into a network of over 1000+ civic tech volunteers in 25 cities all over Germany . She also helped grow Code for All, the global network of Code-for organizations with partners on six continents.
In 2016 Julia co-founded Germany's first public fund for open-source software projects: The Prototype Fund. In its first round, the program attracted over 500 applicants from all over Germany. Over four eight, the fund will support open-source projects with 14+ million Euros.
She is on the advisory board for the Federal German Digital Strategy, Digital Service 4 Germany, the German Postcode Lotterie, a member of the Fachbeirat at DSEE (Deutsche Stiftung für Engagement und Ehrenamt), a member of the Global Diplomacy Lab as well as the Open Knowledge Foundation. She is an alumnus of the Global Leadership Academy. From 2018 – 2019 she was a Fellow at the Mozilla Foundation.
Before joining the ’Open Movement’, Julia used to work in political campaigning and marketing for Platoon. Cultural. Development. in Berlin and Women Make Movies in New York.
Email: mail@juliakloiber.com
Projects:
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Superrr Lab
Demanding inclusive and radically diverse digital futures -
Prototype Fund
An open source funding program for digital social innovation -
Code for Germany
Code for Germany: Use your skills to improve yor city -
Apps & the City
Germany's first Open Transport hackathon series -
Stadt Land <Code>
Digital tools for Citizens and Cities
Talks:
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Content Moderation – Exploitation as a Service
republica 2023 -
Reclaiming Data Cities: Fighting for the Future We Really Want
Disruption Lab -
My vacuum cleaner has sold the floor plan of my apartment to IKEA
Z2X Digital -
Request for Optimism
Keynote at Impakt Festival, Utrecht -
Future Perfect - how to speculate about the future and drive change
Personal Democracy Forum CEE 2018 -
Let's build better digital tools for our cities!
TED Talk: Coding for the public good
Articles & Publishing:
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FAZ Feuilleton
Gastbeitrag FAZ -
FAZ Feuilleton
Interview FAZ Feuilleton -
Is philantropy in crisis?
Interview with Die Zeit -
Digital, aber gut
Female pioneers in tech for society -
Ding! Magazine
Ding – A magazine about futures -
FAZ Quaterly – You can do this!
Interview: This is how women thrive in tech -
Open Data and mobility
Opinion piece on Open Data in the mobility sector. -
FAZ Online – Bitte ein Byte
The State of Open Data in Germany -
Enorm Magazine
Cover Story Enorm magazine -
Wired
Wired Germany's Innovators 2015 -
Das Netz
Article for ‘Das Netz 2014’